A lost response, or a retry after a later step failed, made every further attempt a 404 — and the host impossible to purge. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
validate->reserve(placement)->clone->cloudinit->start->guestagent->network-> deploy->nextcloud->admin->dns/tls->backup->monitoring->acceptance->complete. HetznerDnsClient + TraefikWriter (interface+fake+real), CloudReady notification, hosts.node (set by RegisterCapacity). Secrets transient/encrypted, never plaintext. 21 tests incl. mocked end-to-end + crash idempotency. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>